On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 21:51:54 Stewart Gordon wrote: > Er, do away with the meaningless @? Since nobody seems to have > succeeded in explaining how the @-attributes differ from the rest, it > seems the right way to go.
That would mean creating more keywords, which would break code. By using @, we avoid having to create new keywords, which I believe was the whole point in the first place. Which attributes got @ on them was fairly arbitrary, but they do definitely serve a purpose. And any new attributes in the future will probably have @ on them for the same reason. - Jonathan M Davis
